British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford 'devastated' with death sentence
Lindsay Sandiford, the British grandmother sentenced to death in Bali for drug
smuggling is "devastated", her lawyer said.
Sandiford has two further avenues of appeal and an opportunity to apply for presidential clemency if those failed
Esra Karokaro, defence counsel, said she had barely spoken since she was sentenced in Indonesia for smuggling nearly 11 pounds of cocaine, in a shock decision after prosecutors had sought only 15 years imprisonment.
"Certainly she was devastated by the verdict. She's psychologically
shaken," Mr Karokaro said, confirming she would likely appeal the
sentence.
Sandiford, who authorities said was the ringleader in a drugs importation
outfit, now faces a lengthy legal process after judges at a court in Bali's
capital Denpasar handed down the stiff sentence Tuesday.
She
was found guilty of carrying the drugs worth £1.5 million in her suitcase
as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok last May, but has argued that she
was coerced and that her children had been threatened.
Hillary Parsons, Sandiford's sister who was present at the trial, was also "shocked"
at the verdict, Mr Karokaro said.
"Her sister has asked me about the legal procedures required to file an
appeal," he said, adding that he felt the death penalty was "excessive".
The appeals process in Indonesia typically takes several years to complete, including protracted hearings before judges at the High Court and Supreme Court before the final resort of seeking a presidential clemency.
Sandiford is now being held at the infamous Kerobokan prison – home to Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby since 2004 and the "Bali Nine" – a group of Australians caught at the island's airport with heroin strapped to their bodies.
Indonesia enforces stiff penalties for drug trafficking, but death penalty sentences are commonly commuted to long jail sentences.
Two members of the "Bali Nine" who were arrested in 2005 are currently on death row, while seven others face lengthy jail terms.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad, usually at night in isolated and undisclosed locations. The last one was in June 2008, when two Nigerian drug traffickers were shot.
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